History data 2011 - 2020
History data 2011 - 2020
2011
- May 2011
In the federal-state programme "Quality Pact for Teaching", the university receives around seven million euros until the end of 2016 for the project "Research-based Learning in Focus" (FLiF) and further funding for the joint application "eCompetence and Utilities for Learners and Teachers" (eCULT). - 16 May 2011
Funding of the Research Training Group "Models of Gravity" at the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen by the German Research Foundation (DFG). - 18 November 2011
Funding of the Research Training Group "SCARE - System Correctness under Adverse Circumstances" by the German Research Foundation (DFG). - 8 December 2011
The Lower Saxony state parliament approves the basic funding of the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS), paving the way for the establishment of a School of Medicine.
2012
- 31 January 2012
Foundation stone laid for the new Neurosensory Science and Safety Critical Systems (NeSSy) Research Centre. - 20 April 2012
Foundation of the Max Planck Research Group "Marine Isotope Geochemistry", based at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM). - 15 June 2012
Success for hearing research in Oldenburg: approval of the "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. Partners are the Hannover Medical School and the University of Hannover. - 10 August 2012
Foundation of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as the sixth School of the University. - 28 September 2012
Opening of the "Smart House Oldenburg" science centre in the centre of Oldenburg. - 23 October 2012
Ceremonial opening of the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) with Lower Saxony's Minister President David McAllister, who welcomes the first 40 medical students. - 13 November 2012
Funding of the Research Training Group "Molecular Basis of Sensory Biology" by the German Research Foundation (DFG). - 28 November 2012
The German President's Future Prize goes to the Oldenburg hearing researchers Prof Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier and Prof Dr Volker Hohmann as well as Dr Torsten Niederdränk (Siemens AG).
2013
- 7 September 2013
Opening of the Karl Jaspers House in Oldenburg's Dobben district with the library of the Oldenburg-born psychiatrist and philosopher. The house is also home to the Karl Jaspers Society
The Karl Jaspers House in Oldenburg's Dobben neighbourhood.
2014
- 1 April 2014
The previous Vice President for Research, Prof Dr Katharina Al-Shamery, is entrusted with the "performance of the President's duties" following the resignation of University President Prof Dr Babette Simon. - 24 May 2014
Visit of the Dutch royal couple Willem-Alexander and Máxima. An energy symposium is held in their honour, with a joint final declaration by 40 experts on the expansion of renewable energies as a decentralised and cross-border task. emphasised. - 17 November 2014
Handover of the research vessel "Sonne", whose home institute is the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg.
The research vessel "Sonne"
2015
- 23 June 2015
Opening of the NeSSy research building, which provides space for around 80 employees of the "Hearing4all" Cluster of Excellence and the interface between the Research Centres Neurosensory Science and Safety Critical Systems. - 1 August 2015
Prof. Dr Dr Hans Michael Piper takes up the office of University President. - 18 September 2015
The university receives a new EU-funded centre of excellence: the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Europeanising Coastal Regions "
2016
- 8/9 June 2016
Around 140 students from all over Germany meet at the university for the interdisciplinary conference "forschen@studium" to present their student research.
2017
- 15 May 2017
Funding of the Research Training Group "Activation of Chemical Bonds" by the German Research Foundation (DFG). - 31 May 2017
Opening of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), which combines the research excellence of the University and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. - 4 July 2017
The joint proposal from the University of Oldenburg and Jade University of Applied Sciences is the only one in Lower Saxony to be selected for funding in the federal-state funding programme "Innovative University". - 13 November 2017
The "Prize Papers"project is accepted into the academy programme funded by the federal and state governments. The research project is headed by historian Prof Dr Dagmar Freist. - 19 November 2017
The University and Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO) celebrate the opening of the academic year together for the first time. "AUFTAKT 17/18" brings together around 800 university members, UGO members and guests from politics, business and culture. Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is the keynote speaker.
2018
- 2 March 2018
The University of Oldenburg, Hannover Medical School and the University of Hanover establish the Centre of Excellence for Hearing Research. - 18 May 2018
Approval of the Collaborative Research Centre "Hearing Acoustics" by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Spokesperson is the psychoacoustician Prof Dr Volker Hohmann. - 31 May 2018
The EWE research institute NEXT ENERGY (affiliated institute of the university) becomes the Institute for Networked Energy Systems of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). - 4 July 2018
Approval of a new research group on biodiversity by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the leadership of biologist Prof Dr Helmut Hillebrand. - 27 September 2018
Excellence Strategy: The "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence scores again and is funded for another seven years. The spokesperson is Oldenburg physician and physicist Prof Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier. Partners are the Hannover Medical School and the University of Hannover. - 23 November 2018
Approval of a Collaborative Research Centre on animal navigation by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The spokesperson is biologist Prof Dr Henrik Mouritsen. - 14 December 2018
The Lower Saxony state parliament decides to expand University Medicine Oldenburg in the near future and to double the number of medical study places from 40 to 80 as early as the 2019/20 winter semester. - 19 December 2018
The University of Oldenburg is at the top of the current start-up radar of the Stifterverband and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation in the category of medium-sized universities.
2019
- 1 April 2019
Oldenburg research groups from Computing Science and Marine Sciences will be working in the new DFKI Laboratory Lower Saxony, which has been set up by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). - 23 May 2019
The university organises the 2nd World Congress for Student Research. 450 students from 35 countries are guests in Oldenburg. - 24 May 2019
In Wilhelmshaven, the foundation stone is laid for a new research centre at the university: the Centre for Marine Sensors (ZfMarS). - 15 July 2019
The German Council of Science and Humanities rates the model degree programme in human medicine at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) as an "impressive range of courses" and calls on the state to expand it further. further expansion. - 29 July 2019
Foundation of the interdisciplinary research centre for human-cyber-physical systems. - 12 September 2019
Success in the tenure track programme: the university receives ten additional professorships for outstanding young academics. - 11 November 2019
The state funds eight additional digitalisation professorships at the University and Jade University of Applied Sciences.
2020
- 1 July 2020
Starting signal for the "Startup Region Northwest" after another success for the University of Oldenburg as a start-up university in the EXIST competition. - 30 September 2020
State politicians pledge 80 million euros for the urgently needed teaching and research building for university medicine - a stage victory. The university, clinics and numerous stakeholders from the city and region had previously resisted state plans not to fund the new building. - 12 October 2020
The university welcomes its almost 2,000 first-semester students online via livestream for the first time due to the pandemic. - 29 October 2020
The universities of Oldenburg and Groningen celebrate 40 years of intensive co-operation with an online ceremony. The cooperation agreement is extended for another ten years. - 11 December 2020
Approval of the research group "The Dynamic Deep Subsurface of High-Energy Beaches" by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the leadership of hydrogeologist Prof Dr Gudrun Massmann.
Historical data " 2001 - 2010